Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Marcel Meyer <meyerm@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:03:13
Message-Id: 201103011652.40328.meyerm@fs.tum.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile. by Pavel Labushev
1 On Sunday 27 February 2011 17:20:25 Pavel Labushev wrote:
2 > 27.02.2011 22:32, "Tóth Attila" пишет:
3 > http://grsecurity.net/pipermail/grsecurity/2010-April/001024.html - from
4 here:
5
6 So if I understand pageexec's mail correctly, using a 32-bit hardened domU-
7 kernel is more performant than the 64-variant when using UDEREF? What happens
8 when I use a 64-bit hardened dom0-kernel on Xen underneath (since the machine
9 has more than 4 GB RAM, each VM won't get that much)?
10
11 Is the gain of security in this case worth the loss of randomization for ASLR?
12
13
14 Thank you

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